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ICAN seeks parliamentary support in Spain as Trump breaks the Iran nuclear deal
ICAN representatives set to meet members of the Spanish Congress as President Trump pushes the doomsday clock closer to midnight. “Today’s announcement by US President Donald Trump to de-certify the JCPOA (the Iran Deal) raises tensions even higher and threatens…
Mayte Quintanilla: “Creating alternatives to today’s world is an act of freedom that unites us”
Mayte Quintanilla, an activist for a universal and unconditional basic income, is a long-time humanist who has been working for decades to transform the world around her in the political and social fields. She will participate in the European Humanist…
How the arms trade is used to secure access to oil
Vincenzo Bove, University of Warwick for The Conversation UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia increased by 175% in the first nine months of 2017 according to an investigation by the Campaign Against Arms Trade. Similarly, France and the US are…
The Active Nonviolence toolkit, proposals for the European Humanist Forum
In May 1969 Silo gave a speech, The Healing of Suffering in a remote outpost of the Argentinian Andes which today could be seen as the launch of an Active Nonviolence Manifesto. He referred then to violence being not just…
The Quest for Order in a Time of Chaos
Viewpoint by Boaventura de Sousa Santos* COIMBRA, Portugal (IDN) – The bombing of Syrian sites where chemical weapons are supposedly being manufactured or stocked, allegedly to be used by the Bashar al-Assad government against rebels, has left citizens all over…
The need to work less is a matter of life and death
David Spencer, University of Leeds for The Conversation The May bank holiday is intimately linked to labour history and to struggles over time spent at work. In the US, May Day has its origins in the fight for an eight-hour…
May Day history and Galeano’s sadness
The absence of memory Eduardo Galeano Chicago is full of factories. There are factories in the center of the city, around the world’s highest building. Chicago is full of factories, Chicago is full of workers. When I get to the…
EHF2018: David Bazo ”We need to open our eyes to see there are alternatives”
David Bazo wrote the music for the documentary film “UBI, Our Right to Live“, which will be released on the 12th of May at noon at the El Pozo Cultural Centre, Madrid, within the frame of the European Humanist Forum…
‘May Day’: Militancy Needed To Create The Economy We Need
Co-authored by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese Seventy years of attacks on the right to unionize have left the union movement representing only 10 percent of workers. The investor class has concentrated its power and uses its power in an…
Straight talk on trade, international institutions, Greek austerity and inequality
By JAMES GALBRAITH 27 April 2018 for openDemocracy European austerity is a politics of power. It’s a banker protection racket. And the fact is, the strategy has now failed. Protestors outside trade negotiators meeting between 11 of the original 12 TPP…
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